<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div><br>On 07/02/2013, at 10:15 PM, Marc MERLIN <<a href="mailto:marc@merlins.org">marc@merlins.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 09:47:19PM +1100, Joshua Hesketh wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Yes these options are being discussed with the people and entities</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>involved. It is quite complicated. At this point we are at the very</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>least ensuring the Pia isn't personally out of pocket. We will continue</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>to explore other avenues of reasoning but the bottom line is that</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>contracts were signed.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Right. I wasn't suggesting to default, but to appeal to him as a human</span><br><span>being, which I'm hoping he is :)</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>My understanding is that the funding goes directly to the W3C, not to Sir Tim himself <div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><span>If I ever asked that much money from a self funded conf without big pockets </span><br><span>and they came back to me and told me they came up short, and appealed to</span><br><span>me to reduce my fee in a way that I am still well off, I sure would give</span><br><span>the conf a break.</span><br><span>Putting it a different way, as an individual, I would look at him as a</span><br><span>bad human being if given the full situation, his reply was "though, you</span><br><span>signed, now you pay everything".</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>My understanding is that LCA was one of many sponsors (<a href="http://tbldownunder.org/">http://tbldownunder.org/</a> lists 16 sponsors and 3 partners) who jointly paid for Sir Tim's visit; reading between the lines, it sounds as though it is one of the other sponsors who has reneged on their sponsorship.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span>Marc</span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>"A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R.</span><br><span>Microsoft is to operating systems ....</span><br><span> .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking</span><br><span>Home page: <a href="http://marc.merlins.org/">http://marc.merlins.org/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Chat mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Chat@lists.lca2013.linux.org.au">Chat@lists.lca2013.linux.org.au</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.lca2013.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat_lists.lca2013.linux.org.au">http://lists.lca2013.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/chat_lists.lca2013.linux.org.au</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>